Hi Heather and all, Marco from Politecnico di Milano has been organizing similar events with even younger kids (fifth-graders!) and the results were impressive. I'm sure he'd be happy to share his opinions and experience.
Some links: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/ (scroll down to the May 5th 2016 webinar) Happy mapping! Cristiano On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Steven Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Heather & list, > tl;dr; - Let's chat. > > Since the beginning of the year, TeachOSM has been collaborating with the > American Geographical Society[1] to host a series of online workshops for > high school (but also college) instructors. The workshops are designed to > augment basic mapping training by helping teachers take the next step of > integrating open mapping to their curricula., The workshops also act as > an ongoing support service and forum for project development. > > As part of this collaboration, we're pulling together a 4-part Open > Mapping Summer Camp for teachers. It has not been announced yet as details > are still pending. But our plan is to introduce and test the modules in the > TeachOSM for High School curriculum[2]. The curriculum is designed to > compliment the AP Human Geography curriculum.[3] > > That's the gist of it. Happy to chat with any and all. Cheers, > > SEJ > > [1] http://americangeo.org > [2] https://github.com/shawnmgoulet/teachosm-for-high-school > [3] https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-human-geography > > -- SEJ > -- twitter: @geomantic > -- skype: sejohnson8 > > Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans! - Empedocles, > *Fragments, > 141.* > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Many of you have teaching experience and have shared curriculum on >> TeachOSM. I'd be keen to talk with anyone who has does mapping workshops >> with high school students. >> >> This week I held a session with Ecole Internationale Geneva focused on >> Missing Maps techniques. The session plan is listed in the blog post. >> >> http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/2017/06/29/data-ifrc-maps-kids- >> humanitarian-outreach-16/ >> >> Thanks, >> >> Heather >> >> >> Heather Leson >> [email protected] >> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson >> Blog: textontechs.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Cristiano Giovando Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [email protected] http://www.hotosm.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us at the HOT Summit! 14-15 September, Ottawa http://summit.hotosm.org
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